LIST OF API STANDARDS FOR VALVES AND EQUIPMENTS

American Petroleum Institute defines standards for oil and natural gas industry. There is standards for
various types of valves and equipments used in oil and gas industry. This results is uniform design of
equipments and parts with replaceability across various manufacturers. Here is a list of such standards.

Sr. Number Title

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1 526 Flanged Steel Pressure-Relief Valves

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2 560 Fired Heaters for General Refinery Services

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3 594 Wafer and Wafer-Lug Check Valves

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4 599 Metal Plug Valves

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5 600 Bolted Bonnet Steel Gate Valves for Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries

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6 602 Compact Steel Gate Valves

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7 603 Class 150, Cast, Corrosion-Resistant, Flanged-End Gate Valves

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8 605 Large Diameter Carbon-Steel Flanges (NPS 26-60, class 75, 150, 300, 400, 600 and 900

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9 608 Metal Ball Valves

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10 609 Butterfly Valves: Double Flanged, Lug- and Wafer-Type

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11 610 Centrifugal Pumps for Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industries

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12 611 General Purpose Steam Turbines for Petroleum, Chemical, Gas Industry Services

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13 612 Special Purpose Steam Turbines For Petroleum, Chemical, Gas Industry Services

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14 616 Gas Turbines For

API Axial and Centrifugal Compressors and Expander-compressors for Petroleum, Chemical
15 617 and Gas Industry Services
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16 618 Reciprocating Compressors

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17 619 Screw Compressors

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18 620 Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low Pressure Storage Tanks

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19 621 Reconditioning metallic gate, globe, and check valves.

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20 650 Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage

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21 660 Shell-and-tube Heat Exchangers

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22 661 Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Service

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23 662 Plate Heat Exchangers for General Refinery Services